What have you been checking out online this week? I have a new favorite Facebook page after seeing a picture a friend posted; it’s Organic Green Roots. Their Facebook page is chockfulla of the coolest pictures like this one:

And this one:

images via Organic Green Roots

I’m a sucker for an ostrich made out of a small pruned tree and graffiti!

Next, I am so taken by this tiny coastal home in Uruguay that Danielle posted over at The Style Files. You simply must check out the inside; it’s such a beautiful, comfortable and peaceful looking spot. Here’s a little teaser:

image from Espacio Living via The Style Files

Jenny from My Favorite and My Best always makes me spit out my coffee with laughter, yet she educates me along the way. Thanks to her, this week I found out these rugs are called beni ourain rugs thanks to her. How did I not know that? And how how funny is that goat she worked into her roundup?

image via My Favorite and My Best. I think it originally came from New York Magazine.

While I’m the world’s worst Do-It-Yourselfer, I am very tempted to try my hand at making a terrarium thanks to Nicole over at Making It Lovely. Back in the seventies, these things were as popular as macramé, and the last one I made was in elementary school in a 2-liter plastic bottle (what was up with the liters? I think they came out back when we still thought the states metric conversion was imminent). Nicole’s is much more fresh and beautiful than the one I made back then. Check out how cool hers is, with instructions and more pretty pictures here:

image via Making It Lovely

Where have you been getting your inspiration from this week? Let us know in the comments section!

Hey all, have you been poking around the web this week? What caught your eye? Did it bring up any big questions, other than “Is Jessica Simpson having quintuplets or what?!?!?!”? Let me know what you found (or what you wrote) in the comments section. Here are five things that I enjoyed this week.

Why I blog by Coffee with an Architect. Jody Brown is so witty and smart and takes all of the pompousness out of architecture. He takes it out, blows it up, and makes fun of it. It’s awesome. I loved his article about how and why he started doing it, which he wrote almost two months ago, but I’m just getting around to. Trust me, once you go “have coffee” with him, you won’t want to leave.

I was so entertained by the stream of consciousness inspiration over at Modern Sauce. It’s like reading e.e. cummings with pictures of cool stuff, and not worrying about having to write some lame high school paper about it later. Somehow it bounces from the title of a fan fiction writer’s bondage book title to ombre tights to Lisbeth Salander haircuts to modern buildings and it all just works.

image by Drew Kelly for Dwell

Anyone who checks in here at Hatch knows I have a cargotecture fetish. I have no idea why. This dude in Dwell has his home office in one, which is atop another one that serves as a bedroom suite, all inside his loft. Check out the entire slideshow over at Dwell.

The Designer Pad: I just really dig this blog. Love the layout, love the font, love the taste, love the little icons down the left side. It’s smart, it’s easy on the eyes and it is a nice way to take a little break from work each day. It even made me click on some super expensive air filter ad on the side, and I actually thought about buying it.

Last week I had a chance to visit the Atlanta Botanical Gardens and I was so excited to see a series of gates by Atlanta metalcrafter Andrew T. Crawford. I had always admired (and I believe I must have shared on this blog at some point) his whimsical garden tool gate that is permanently installed at the gardens:

Right now through the end of April, you can get a big dose of Crawford’s work via the show Garden Gates at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.

photo via West 8

Another cool project catching my eye this week are the Wavedecks in Toronto. The Simcoe Wavedeck portion of the project, by West 8,  caught my eye via the Serenity in the Garden blog. The Wavedeck negotiates the space between the city of Toronto and its waterfront on Lake Ontario, landing somewhere in between. This section also serves as an amphitheater as well as a connection between diverse parts of the waterfront. Learn more here.

Finally, I’m so excited to see fabulous interior designer Rachel Reider‘s sneak peek at her new designs at The Attwater in Newport, Rhode Island. It’s a tease and I cannot wait to see with the rest of the place:

photo via The Attwater on Facebook

Don’t you just love what she’s done with the upholstered headboard? This is actually something you can do with your favorite fabric, and should you ever tire of your fabric choice, you can recover it. Mounting an upholstered headboard to a wall is a great way to save space in a tight bedroom.

image by Denilson Machado – MCA Estúdio

Well, this round up contains a round up. It’s a great one from the National Trust for Historic Preservation (along with Blu Dot, one of still one of my favorite digital newsletters), and it rounds up a bunch of repurposed buildings from around the …what are the kids saying these days instead of “interwebs?” Love for Christopher Guest movies aside, I’m as sick of it as I am of “smitten” and “über.” It’s a shame, because I finally learned how to type that little dot thingee over über, though I still don’t know what it’s called…

Anyway, the image above is from THE COOLEST of the bunch, a home that used to belong to an artist that was recently freshened up by architect Guilherme Torres. I perused it on Treehugger but they found it via, where else, ArchDaily.

Moving on, if you’re in San Francisco next month, be sure to check The Wizard. The Wizard of the Dome, that is, Bucky Fuller. My colleague over at Houzz, Vanessa Brunner, has more info for you.

image via Chronicle Books blog

I needed a little spring cleaning kick, as the pollen is NUTS here in Atlanta and my big cleaning impulse from New Year’s has weakened and waned. Thus, seeing all the people over at Chronicle Books cleaning up their offices made me smile and inspired me to dust, vacuum and tackle more de-cluttering.

Finally, I’m sure most of us have been a renter at sometime or another, and so this post by Taylor Morgan over at Made by Girl is super relatable; it’s called Renting: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly. I especially love the Cribs-esque video they made at the end.

Which stories did you enjoy on the web this week? Let us know in the comments section!

I love seeing my favorite pieces used in fresh designs, both commercial and residential. We recently received some gorgeous shots of the iconic Emeco chairs in action that I thought I’d share.

This is Urban Farmer bar by environmental designer, David Ashen of D-ASH Design. The space combines the 1951 Barstools from Emeco with reclaimed materials such as a 20-foot communal table. You can visit it on the 8^th floor lobby of the Nines Hotel in Portland. The restaurant honors local culinary traditions, sourcing ingredients from organic farms nearby. But can you can go visit the cult that raised the chicken you want to order like Fred and Carrie did on Portlandia? I’m not sure.

Here’s a closer look at the 1951 stool. It’s looking better than ever in 2012.

This may be one of the most aesthetically pleasing workplace cafeterias I’ve ever seen. Well, it’s more of an intimate kitchen, and it’s at the headquarters of Clif Bars. It’s called Kali’s Kitchen and their website is pretty great; check it out. The employees over there are eating a lot of other things besides energy bars! Designed by ZGF Architecture, the kitchen design prioritized sustainability and re-using materials. Appropriately, the seating includes the 1006 Navy Chair and Navy Stools, which are made with 80% recycled aluminum.

Here’s a close up of the Navy Stool.

If you have an Emeco fetish like I do, you’ll love checking out their Tumblr stream. I also rounded some Navy Chairs up a long time ago for my other gig at Houzz. Designers tend to pick the chairs for the freshest rooms around, whether at a home’s kitchen island or in the chicest of bars and restaurants.